American tourists are the worst… https://www.insider.com/suspect-women-pushed-off-german-cliff-had-claw-marks-neuschwanstein-2023-6

A lot of conservatives are just deeply insecure losers who are pissed off that other people are having fun and leading fulfilling lives without them and their stupid rules, which they know they have to force on people because no one else is as big a sucker as they are.

Why are white Texans who died bravely fighting to keep slavery going remembered as heroes? But white Texans who died bravely fighting to oppose slavery, forgotten and not talked about? 🤔

What are we really celebrating?

"Everyone was racist back then!" No. No they weren't. Stop saying that.

Texas should look like Kid's hair. But it looks like Play's hair. Because Texas wanted to hold onto that racism just a little bit longer.

The Alamo was also a fight to preserve Texas's right to keep slavery going. They lost.

You can't just keep lying and changing how history is taught to hide the shamefulness of racism. If you want to be remembered as the good guys, maybe try being the good guys!

Otherwise, you'll just be embarrassed when your kids and grand kids learn the truth about you.

@NikolajewDesign @The_Tim @playdate same as well.
Hey Playdate, what’s the latest eta for Group 5?

Juneteenth (June 19th) is not a "holiday celebrating when news of the end of slavery finally reached Texas." No. Just no. Y'all make it sound like network latency! Like we were playing Fortnite, and all the Black players were lagging.🤡

Juneteenth is when the racist state of Texas took another very public L. Texas did everything it could to keep slavery going as long as possible. They gave up land to Oklahoma, so they could be below the slavery line. The Alamo was a victory for abolitionists.

RT @NigelWitham

Mowing became fashionable during the Industrial Revolution when it was how the wealthy showed off they didn't need to grow their own food.

250 years on and manicured lawns are so embedded in our culture that despite the adverse impacts many can't envision any alternatives.

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Using an infrared thermometer to measure the difference in temperature between mown paths and the unmown areas in my garden.

Chat GPT is great. If you are a teacher with writer’s block you can ask for something like “End of year comment for student who needs to have more confidence in their work and who asks good questions” and it will spit out *paragraphs* of the most bland, corporate, superlative content-free, schlock you’ve ever seen. This will make you so angry that you’ll remember how to write.

It’s all “actionable” this and “out of the box” that … omg just poke both my eyes out right now.

@jhv I understand their feeling of desperation, but that isn’t going to win ANYONE over to the cause.

@WagnerTonight is pouring tea on Judge Cannon. she has 14 days of trial court experience.

i shit you not.

on her lifetime appt application, she provided fluff news articles she wrote as a student intern, not legal briefs or reviews.

THE BEST PEOPLE

mike just called that ai thing “chatGOP” because “it says things in a really earnest and folksy way that are demonstrably untrue”

Kazakh is a gender-neutral language, so Google Translate makes some.. interesting assumptions. 🤔

Kinda like how Nazis and the German Jewish community were "at odds."

"7 years after Pulse, Florida Republicans and LGBTQ+ community at odds"

https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2023/06/14/florida-republicans-lgbtq-trust-pulse-nightclub-anniversary-ron-desantis

#media #gop #lgbtq

This is like the ATN chyrons in the intro to Succession.

Fox News Calls Biden a ‘Wannabe Dictator’ https://politicalwire.com/2023/06/14/fox-news-labelled-biden-wannabe-dictator/

Don’t know who needs to hear this, but Donald J. Trump has been arrested more times than he’s been elected.

@heinzskunk @mayhem ich habe bei K2 Bike gearbeitet im spät 90er Jahren mit den Typs von ProFlex.
Hab ein SMS zu einer geschickt mit diese Fotos. Ich nehm mal an es war eine Marke für den Deutsche Distributor im Mittel 90er.

Twitter learned, and Reddit is fast learning, that people are not addicted to the platform, they’re addicted to the community they found there. Ruin the community, and people will leave the platform. It really is that simple.

I’m going to keep repeating this - calling right-wing extremists who are armed, organized, and threatening violence, “militias” works to their goal of establishing legitimacy. They are terrorists. Call. Them. Out.

And if you’re in media and calling them “militias”, but refer to Daesh, ISIS, Al-Qaida, or the Taliban as “terrorists”, you should really think about why that is and the bias that you’re internalizing in your work.

#Terrorism
#DomesticTerrorism